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Maknesan

Maknesan is our apparel line. Heavyweight, garment-dyed tees built around one mark — a stamp. Postage is the oldest proof that something travelled, and every piece in the line is put together from that idea.

  • DisciplineApparel & Identity
  • OwnerMixedMind Studios
  • StatusIn development
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A woman seen from behind, hair pinned up, wearing the washed charcoal Maknesan tee with light denim. The back print reads LONDON in heavy black type above a collage of Caribbean postage stamps — Jamaica, St. Lucia, Bahamas, St. Vincent, Barbados, St. Kitts & Nevis, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago — franked with round Notting Hill postmarks.
A man seen from behind wearing the washed black Maknesan tee. On this colourway the LONDON wordmark is printed in white, and the same Caribbean stamp collage sits below it in full colour against the dark ground.
A man with shoulder-length locs seen from behind wearing the white Maknesan tee, the black LONDON wordmark and the Caribbean stamp collage at their highest contrast.
A man seen from behind wearing the mid-grey Maknesan tee with wide light denim, black LONDON wordmark above the Caribbean stamp collage.

    The mark

    Maknesan

    The chest carries the stamp patch: an M set inside a perforated square, the wordmark underneath. It is small on purpose. The garment does the talking; the mark only signs it.

    The back print is the counterweight — a collage of stamps under a heavy LONDON wordmark, franked with postmarks. It is a record of a route, not a slogan. The same print runs across the colourways, and reads differently on each one.

    A model seen from behind wearing the white Maknesan tee, showing the same LONDON stamp-collage back print in its lighter colourway.
    LONDON back print — white
    A washed black Maknesan tee laid flat, with the M / MAKNESAN stamp patch at the chest.
    Stamp patch — washed black

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